Salvador Dalí, Gala, 1931. Oil and collage on cardboard, 13,9 x 9,2 cm Antoni Pitxot, director of the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres, and Montse Aguer, director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies, have presented today the latest acquisition made by the Dalí Foundation: an oil titled Gala. This painting could be the first [...]

Artist Vladimir Zunuzin Presents Painting Process «The Parable of the Blind»

Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson, executed in 1984. Stamped twice with estate and foundation seals on the overlap acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 30 X 26 in. The Vered Gallery in East Hampton has temporarily removed an Andy Warhol portrait of Michael Jackson from the auction block. The Associated Press reported that gallery co-owner Janet Lehr [...]

Gilbert and George once had something to say. Now, we’re listening – and they’re incoherent.

The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel is the first major museum retrospective in the United States to survey the work of León Ferrari (Argentine, b. 1920) and Mira Schendel (Brazilian, b. Switzerland, 1919–1988), and to explore their significant contributions to contemporary art. Working separately over several decades in [...]

The astonishing mystery surrounding Paolo Veronese’s historic work The Petrobelli Altarpiece will be solved when this enigmatically beautiful painting by celebrated Venetian Renaissance artist, Paolo Veronese, was unveiled to the public at the National Gallery of Canada on May 29, 2009. Fragments of the original work will be reunited some 400 years after their original [...]

The highest estimate in this week’s contemporary art sales in New York is the $6 million to $8 million (£4 million to £5.3 million) asked for Jeff Koons’s 7ft, stainless-steel wrapped Easter egg. Sotheby’s insists that the estimate is less than half what it would have been a year ago and is a bargain. Jonathan [...]